nmeum: As such, if you have a package 'foo' which recommends 'bar' (which is not installed), and you then install package 'baz' which depends on 'bar', then 'bar' will remain when you remove 'baz' due to the recommends relationship.

Binary-only firmware was removed from the radeon <DRM> driver at linux-2.6 2.6.29-1 (Debian bug #494009) and is packaged separately in firmware-linux-nonfree. Without this package installed, poor 2D/3D performance in the <radeon> xorg driver is commonly experienced. To acquire, ask me about <non-free sources>. This is not required for use of the <fglrx> driver.

If you have a question, just ask! For example: "I have a problem with ___; I'm running Debian version ___. When I try to do ___ I get the following output ___. I expected it to do ___." Don't ask if you can ask, if anyone uses it, or pick one person to ask. We're all volunteers; make it easy for us to help you. If you don't get an answer try a few hours later or on debian-user@lists.debian.org. See <smart questions><errors>.

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freddo63: All ia32-* packages are obsolete in wheezy as you can just install the i386 libraries directly (they are, however, metapackages these day that pull in a plethora of 32bit libraries, so you can still install them)

I understand that ia32 is obsolete and I don't need them now that there's multi arch support, which I think I have installed. However, how do I know what i386 libraries satisfy the ia32 library requirements on this page: http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/Quartus_for_Debian_Wheezy The Debian page for ia32-lib doesn't say anything about what i386 library replaces it

hi everyone. I was hoping someone could help me out. During the installation of debian my network works fine (it's a realtek thing) but once the system boots I can't get a single packet over the network. I've installed the firmware-realtek package but no success either

freddo63: It's the same principle for ia32-libs-gtk. You can still install those packages (once you enabled i386 as explained in the multiarch howto), but you will probably install way more libraries than you actually need. You could, probably, ivnestigate (with, say, ldd) which libraries quartus really needs and then install only those.

freddo63: I am, right now, a bit surprised that you cannot install that packages (or all of its recommended packages), but that might simply be the case. A simple "apt-get --no-install-recommends install ia32-libs-gtk" might do the trick though. (or disable recommend in aptitude or simply accept the first solution)

Hello guys, i recently installed debian wheezy on my fileserver, and as part of my setup i need to setup iscsi, so i do this by installing iscsitarget and iscsitarget-dkms. However when i scan for the iscsitarget i have set up, i get kernellockup on the wheezy machine.

ahh ok, I haven't yet installed it as it's been recommended that I first install depended libraries, and the install will be my next challenge, since the guide looks outdated, and quartus appears to be made for redhat

It might be hard for you to fix all their scripts (and other hardcoded /bin/sh occurrences), but my line of argumentation is that their scripts are buggy and should be fixed and that you should try to keep dash as default. It is, naturally, also perfectly acceptable to simply use bash as /bin/sh and that might be easier.

Where possible, Nvidia graphic processing units are supported using the open source <nouveau> driver on Debian systems by default. To install the proprietary "nvidia" driver, see http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers or ask me about <nvidia dkms>, <nvidia legacy>; installing this directly from nvidia.com (i.e. with <nvidia-installer>) is _not_ supported in #debian, please go to #nvidia on irc.freenode.net.

Device firmware required by the <b43> and <b43legacy> drivers is proprietary and unable to be distributed by the Debian Project. The b43-fwcutter utility (packaged in contrib) can extract this firmware from Broadcom's binary drivers. Debian packages to download, extract and install firmware are available; ask me about <contrib> and use «apt-cache search firmware-b43» to list. http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx#b43-b43legacy

sney: thanks a lot... all this time I've been chasing reconfiguring locales to UTF-8/Unicode and trying different fonts from the installed ones... never occurred to me the font packages thing (very naif, I know)

Hello guys, i recently installed debian wheezy on my fileserver, and as part of my setup i need to setup iscsi, so i do this by installing iscsitarget and iscsitarget-dkms. However when i scan for the iscsitarget i have set up, i get kernellockup on the wheezy machine. This is also a fresh install, my old setup was with debian squeez where i used iscsitarget which worked fine, so the issue

Has anyone here been successful in creating a persistent bootable usb? If so can you please share how you did it, because I have followed a lot of tutorials but none have worked for me. I always end up with some type of boot error.

it seems a tad long though and I'm not sure if it's the exec that I want, as I found various in various folders, and for whatever reasons, no symbolic links were created on the desktop or the lower left corner menu

gotwig: you have a fresh stable install? substitute "unstable" for "stable" (or for "wheezy") in your /etc/apt/sources.list, then apt-get update ... and ... (be very careful about this, as it could break your system badly, e.g. remove many vital packages) apt-get dist-upgrade

can someone point me in the direction of reading, i had debian dual booted with my windows, i formated the windows partition and and reinstalled windows, but somewhere or another i messed up the mbr and boot loader and it just straight boots windows. Im trying to get this bootloader back up in running so i can switch between OS's once again

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austeregrim: I have done some crazy automated installation setups - last time I touched that system, the initial boot via syslinux handed out 8 pages of menu items to choose from, with ~100 possible OS installation options

Hey guys, i recently had some faulty powercables connected to my disks which resulted in my raid10 crashing. Now i cant reassemble it, i get errors like no superblock on sdc and on the other three it says that there are no suitable drives.

ugh. I'm not going to be any help.. but even in working with hardware controllers in the past, I've always done one disk at a time - wait for it to finish rebuilding, then on to the next - lather, rinse, repeat

kichigai, at least I was kind of new to EFI myself until last week, still rather fuzzy on the edges of the territory and I read of setups like that while trying to figure it out on myself. I did a merged EFI-partition in the end, but others obvioulsy don't I guess... search on google